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  • noun Common misspelling of quiescence.

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Examples

  • Some, star-like, nova brightly and then fade in quiesence, perhaps to be reborn in the next cycle.

    Monday, Monday — Slaw 2007

  • Some, star-like, nova brightly and then fade in quiesence, perhaps to be reborn in the next cycle.

    Monday, Monday — Slaw 2007

  • Some, star-like, nova brightly and then fade in quiesence, perhaps to be reborn in the next cycle.

    Slaw » Monday, Monday » Print 2007

  • In that eerie quiesence a thousand fierce, turbanned Kezankian hillmen crowded steep brown slopes that formed a natural amphitheater.

    Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1986

  • In that eerie quiesence a thousand fierce, turbanned Kezankian hillmen crowded steep brown slopes that formed a natural amphitheater.

    Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1984

  • Continue this until the tear in the capsular ligament has united, and the muscular tissues have returned to their normal condition of quiesence.

    An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

  • You have located yourselves upon lands at the risk of life and property, paying to the Government in license and assessment fees for protection which you have never received, and your quiesence under such a system of robbery has stimulated your oppressor to levy on you a still greater amount of taxation, not to advance your interests, but to replenish his exhausted treasury.

    The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862

  • In many ways the achilles heel in Russia's current development process is not to be found in the financial system - $550 billion or so in foreign exchange reserves and another $160 billion in the SWF should certainly serve to protect the economy from all but the most severe of shocks - rather the achilles heel is Russia's nascent industrial sector, which is being steadily choked into quiesence by a combination of high domestic inflation and long term labour shortages produced by Russia rather special demographic profile.

    Global Economy Matters 2008

  • As we have seen, as early as 1796 General Bonaparte was extemporizing cavalry and artillery reserves, and in 1800 the Army of the Reserve was already organized along rudimentary corps d’armée lines; but during the period of relative quiesence that lasted from 1802 to 1805 these ideas received considerable development and more permanent shape.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • As we have seen, as early as 1796 General Bonaparte was extemporizing cavalry and artillery reserves, and in 1800 the Army of the Reserve was already organized along rudimentary corps d’armée lines; but during the period of relative quiesence that lasted from 1802 to 1805 these ideas received considerable development and more permanent shape.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

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